This is the **HELP** dialogue for practical users of the software. This help dialogue is for the main menu. Not for all dialogues. Some dialogues will tell you that they have their own **help** pages.

To resolve an `lbry://` url you can just type it as a command. It will be automatically resolved. If it will fail to resolve the url, it will automatically search for it. It is advised though, to use **search** instead of searching this way. Since a lot of words already are taken as resolvable `lbry://` urls.

# Help & Contribution

**help**

Returns this help page. In other places in the program, you may find separate **help** dialogues. If you have only 1 : in the input line. It means you are in the start of the program. In it's main menu, so to speak. If you see :: or ::: or more, it means you are deeper. And each level might have it's own **help** dialog. 

*To move back one layer, like from ::: to :: you can simply press Enter without typing anything.*

**exit**

Exit the program. And also disconnect the currently running LBRY SDK. **NOTE: This will disconnect all other instances of the SDK. Like for example, if you have LBRY Desktop running. It will close it's connection too.** 

**quit**

Similar to Exit, but with one difference. Quit will not close the LBRY SDK connection. Meaning keeping everything running.

**osinfo**

This will give you a document outlining current support for various operating systems. The recommended operating system to use is a variant of GNU / Linux. But the software might work just fine else where too. Type **osinfo** to learn more about it.

**matrix**

Gives the official Matrix Room link.

**repository**

Gives the git repository url for contributors.

**report**

Gives the url of the issue tracker. So you could report bugs.

**license**

Returns the legal code of the license. 

**clear**

Clears the screen.
 
# Simple LBRY Commands

**connect**

If the SDK is not running. You will need to **connect**. But don't connect all the time. Do this only if the SDK is not running. If you **exit** after using the program. The SDK will **disconnect**. But you can use **quit** instead, and then if you enter again, you will not need to **connect**, since it will be already connected. 

The SDK is a separate program running on the background. **connect** starts this program. But you need to start it if it's already running.

**disconnect**

This will stop the SDK from running without quitting the FastLBRY client. **NOTE: This will disconnect all other instances of the SDK. Like for example, if you have LBRY Desktop running. It will close it's connection too.**

**search**

To use this feature type the word **search**, then a space bar and then the search query. 

Example:
 : search moria's race

It will perform a search on the LBRY network for the search query and give you a list of publications, that the SDK found using this query.

**channel**

Similar to the **search** command. Used in the same way. But gives a list of publications by a channel. The query should be the channel's LBRY URL. *Note: Not the Odysee link to the channel. But the canonical LBRY:// url.

Example:
 : channel @blenderdumbass
 
**trending**

Will show you a list of trending publications.

**articles**

Will show you currently trending readable articles.

**following** or **subscriptions**

Will show the latest publications from the channels you are following.

# Account Related Commands

**login**

Will login to your LBRY account. 

**wallet**

Will give you your transaction history

**balance**

Will give you your wallet's balance.

**uploads**

Will give you your uploads history

**history**

Will give you your downloads history

**inbox**

Gives a history of comments done on your publications. You can use a variety of arguments with the command. Like for example **inbox all** will load and cache all of the comment history on your account. That might take a few hours if it's big. **inbox cache** will not fetch any new comments. And use only those already loaded. And you can add any number after **inbox** to load any number of publications. **inbox 20** will load comments only from the last 20 publications.


**publish**

Publish a file to the LBRY network.
